Klaus Beimann

(1926)
Massachusetts Institue of Technology (MIT)

Notable Achievement:

• peptide sequencing using mass spectrometry

Biographical Sketch

• Born in Innsbruck, Austria, 1926
• Received Ph.D. (organic chemistry) from the University of Innsbruck, 1951

Academic Appointments

• Instructor, University of Innsbruck, 1951 - 1955
• Research Associate, M.I.T., 1955 - 1957
• Instructor, M.I.T., 1957 - 1959
• Assistant Professor of Chemistry, M.I.T., 1959 - 1962
• Associate Professor of Chemistry, M.I.T., 1962 - 1963
• Professor of Chemistry, M.I.T., 1963 - 1996
• Emeritus, 1996 - Present

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellow, 1983 - 1984
• Field and Franklin Award in Mass Spectrometry of the American Chemical Society, 1986
• Thomson Medal, 1991
• Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 1993

     In addition to numerous other honors and memberships, Klaus Biemann has over 350 publications and a book, Mass Spectrometry: Organic Chemical Applications 1962 (reprinted by ASMS, 1998).